http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/blog_rss/rampantprogress Must. Change. Now. If he can't make this in the Palin counterprogramming window (NBC and CBS will broadcast live to counter Charlie's puffpiece Palin celebrity lifestyle interview), he should deliver it prime time when in Colorado next MOnday -- perfect bookend to his acceptance speech at Invesco; Obama should deliver a prime-time speech Thurs or Friday (steal Palin media attention) on 21st century politics -- exactly akin to his race speech when the right attacked him this summer over Reverend Wright (unintended ironic homonym there...). Speech should be soaring oration about what happened to the political discourse in this country over the last two weeks. From 90,000 folks from all walks of life listening to normal citizens from all walks of life talking about their present and future ... and scads of great detailed policy ... ... to nothing but hate and vitriol around lipstick and hairdos. He should do what he does best -- lead the way to the conversation we need to have, not the hate-fest we've come to... That would put the McPainiacs completely on the defensive -- they then would have to justify their attacks and victim-play, or actually talk substance. http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CZGz http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CZGz/commentary#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:31:04 EDT http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CZGz RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CZGz/ Opening day, and a ThinkProgress commentator gets it just right : I think Jon Stewart will have a nice segment on this one. Cost of an illegal Iraq War - $280,000,000,000 ( or is it $2 trill? ed... ) Projected national debt - $9,000,000,000,000 Having the Vice-President being booed by 45,000+ Americans during America's Pastime - priceless Comment by dlet -- April 11, 2006 @ 2:35 pm Oh, Faux News muted the audio when they showed the tape of boo-boy bouncing the baseball up to home plate... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLYC http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLYC/commentary#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:59:01 EDT http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLYC RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLYC/ Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Ginsberg get death threats; Salazar gets hate mail. This is the civil discourse Tom Tancredo and the rest of the racist right wing in America teach , the direct and predictable result of leadership predicated on hate and bile; Sen. Ken Salazar said today that "poisonous" and sometimes racist messages have poured into his office in recent days, blasting him for supporting a proposed guest-worker plan. Tancredo is one of the biggest threats to America today.... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLsS http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLsS/commentary#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:52:32 EDT http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLsS RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 2 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLsS/ Update: our little McCarthy wants Allard's seat (remember the term limit promise?). STart collecting the record of teacher-bashing;immigrant hiring/hating; racism; vigilante fund-raising, etc. ------ The hatist will hate this ; As conservatives fight against granting citizenship to illegal immigrants because they're "taking [U.S.] jobs," a new report shows that "Hispanic-owned businesses now comprise one of the fastest-growing segments the U.S. economy." "Hispanic immigrants are not just job takers. They're job creators," said Michael Barrera, of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLYv http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLYv/commentary#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:25:47 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLYv RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 2 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLYv/ Bush today at White House: My attitude about the defense of this country changed on September the 11th. We -- when we got attacked, I vowed then and there to use every asset at my disposal to protect the American people. Our foreign policy changed on that day, Helen. You know, we used to think we were secure because of oceans and previous diplomacy. But we realized on September the 11th, 2001, that killers could destroy innocent life. And I'm never going to forget it. And I'm never going to forget the vow I made to the American people that we will do everything in our power to protect our people. Part of that meant to make sure that we didn't allow people to provide safe haven to an enemy. And that's why I went into Iraq... Get it? If Bush personally gets scared sumbuddy might attack sometime somewhere, we'll attack first. Whether via domestic spying, military ... whatever.... The rapture is upon him... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlc http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlc/commentary#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:12:48 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlc RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 1 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLlc/ How's this for a positive, concrete vision for the country from those running the place? While it is a Republican refrain that Democrats criticize Bush but have no positive vision, for now the governing party also has no national platform around which lawmakers are prepared to rally. Every effort so far to produce such a platform has stumbled. ...Because of these realities, Republicans have adopted a midterm strategy designed to avoid making the election a national referendum on their performance or one that focuses on their policy divisions. Their goal is to concentrate less on the kind of positive message they have challenged the Democrats to produce and more on framing a choice that says, however unhappy voters may be right now with the Republicans' leadership, things would be worse if Democrats were in charge. Get it? We've demonstrated we have zippo on offer (other than perpetual war, domestic spying, massive debt, and abstinence-only everything), but they're worse. There's always the wedgie... In the absence of a positive national message, Republicans also hope to use long-standing "wedge issues" to galvanize their own base and try to put Democrats on record with unpopular votes. Congressional leaders, for instance, plan to push a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. As one GOP strategist succinctly summarized; "...Republican governance is going nowhere." http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlR http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlR/commentary#comments Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:46:13 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlR RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLlR/ A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the state of Tennessee can issue "Choose Life" license plates, the Associated Press reported. The antiabortion license plates had been thrown out by a lower court, after abortion-rights groups complained that the state refused to issue "Choose Choice" plates . via Kos http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlG http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlG/commentary#comments Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:45:49 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlG RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLlG/ Featured on Sludge' home page now: Sandra Day O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdm http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdm/commentary#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:35:10 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdm RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLdm/ Here's what Bush' top domestic policy advisor was up to with your tax dollars , before he was arrested today for stealing from a ton 'o Targets ; Since cultural conservatives cover themselves in the blanket of Chrisitianity which acts as a Shield From All Criticism by our mainstream media let's consider what kind of freak George Bush appoints to important positions: And when all else fails, the Administration has simply preached: In February, a hundred CDC researchers on sexually transmitted diseases were summoned to Washington by HHS deputy secretary Claude Allen for a daylong affair consisting entirely of speakers extolling abstinence until marriage. There were no panels or workshops, just endless testimonials, including one by a young woman calling herself "a born-again virgin." Oh, and he would have been a Federal judge if the Dems hadn't filibustered... they ... ru(i)n .... our ... country.... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdT http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdT/commentary#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:51:31 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdT RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLdT/ Starting around Athens Olympics .. The mobile phones of Greek prime minister Costas Caramanlis and top government and security officials were tapped by unknown individuals during the Athens 2004 Olympics and for nearly a year after, the government said yesterday. "The people [under surveillance] included the prime minister himself and other members of the government," government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos told a news conference. The list of about 100 people whose telephones were tapped included the ministers of foreign affairs, defence, public order and justice. Most of Greece's top military and police officers were also targeted, as were foreign ministry officials, a US embassy number and the prime minister's wife, Natasha. ...The government revealed that the phone tappers used interceptors traced to the vicinity of the US embassy. Senior Vodaphone network administrator who inserted tracking software into Vodaphone system supposedly committed suicide ; Part of the government's investigation will re-examine the supposed suicide of Kostas Tsalikidis, 39, Vodafone Greece's head of network design. Tsalikidis was found hanged in his Athens flat on March 9, only two days after Vodafone Greece had identified and removed the eavesdropping software from its systems... Don't think it's happening here? Pat Roberts enables ... Some will probably argue that the US intelligence services couldn't be so incompetent ... what about the Italian CIA caper, where 13 agents are under indictment after having used their credit cards for luxury hotels, etc, during the scheme to kidnap Italians for interrogation elsewhere? http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdq http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdq/commentary#comments Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:15:44 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdq RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLdq/ Today, in New Orleans : The president said the Army Corps of Engineer would repair the city's flood-protection system before the new hurricane season begins in June. With those repairs, he said, the levees will be "equal to or better than what they were before Katrina." What's the over/under? http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdp http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdp/commentary#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:32:00 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdp RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLdp/ Good night, and good luck, America ; Bennish's father told the Detroit News that his family in Michigan also has been receiving numerous calls - some of them death threats - since his son's comments became public. John Bennish of Beverly Hills, Mich., said at least 12 people have called his home and threatened his life and the lives of his family since the story exploded onto the Internet and network television. As one of Bennish' profs put it ; "I just think it's a shame that the conservative right-wingers can try to dictate curriculum ," Raines said. "I think it's a shame that he could be suspended for trying to do what he does well, up there. http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdG http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdG/commentary#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:42:28 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLdG RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 1 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLdG/ Poor little Patti Allen. She's the mother of the rat-boy who secreted an MP3 device into class to record his AP teacher answering set-up questions written for him by his right-wing tool-time Dad ... then turned the recording over to Mike Rosen to get the teacher fired. Little McCarthy's, every one... Patti Allen and her husband, Jeff Allen, 50, said they never wanted Bennish placed on leave and they do not want him fired. Patti Allen, a national account manager for an armored car company, is so stressed, she said, she spent Sunday morning getting her nails done after biting them off. She said she didn't know until after the fact that her son and husband had given the recording - made on her son's MP3 player - to Rosen and others. ...Jeff Allen ( rat-dad ), a sales manager in the video game industry, described Bennish as being "intimidating," even though he has never met him . I can't think of any better punishment for these tools of the right-wing media, than to over-mediate them . They purposefully created the fire-storm to get a public school teacher fired for challenging his students to think -- now they're manifesting classic right-wing cowardice, and looking to cut and run. View from the UK ; Some Bush/Hitler Youth in Colorado took it upon himself to be the "thought police" and recorded his teacher who was suggesting that the class consider some of the parallels between Hitler and Bush in terms of Iraq. Then the youth and his father got the recording played on the local radio. Since then it was played on National TV. "Liberal" is truly a dirty word in the US and liberal ideas are not to be uttered or discussed in public. The teacher lost his job for even suggesting the Bush/Hitler youth should think outside of his ingrown box. and... The problem is the Radical Right are raising little Bush Youth who are ready to turn in anyone that has an anti Bush thought, "in love and fidelity to our Little Texan, George Bush, and the Flag Bush stands for", just like the Hitler Youth. Those children would turn in THEIR OWN PARENTS if they said something against their beloved Fuhrer. "Hitlerjugend" (HJ)/"Hitler Youth":This was the Nazi youth organization with its various sub-organizations. The "Gesetz über die Hitlerjugend"/"Hitler Youth Act" of 1.12.1936 resolved that the entire German youth had to join the "Hitlerjugend". 10 year old boys and girls, on entering the "Hitlerjugend", had to swear an oath of allegiance in which they promised always to do their duty "in love and fidelity to our Führer and our Flag". 10 to 14 year old boys had to do service in the "Deutschen Jungvolk" (DJ); 14 to 18 year olds in the "Hitlerjugend". 10 to 14 year old girls entered the "Jungmädelbund" (JM); 14 to 18 year olds in the "Bund Deutscher Mädel" (BDM); for 17 to 21 year olds the "BDM-Werk", "Glaube und Schönheit" was available. http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlk http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlk/commentary#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:55:32 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLlk RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 1 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLlk/ ... but perhaps more truth and facts will finally convince more people that Bush is personally dangerously inept and out of touch ; In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared." The footage _ along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press _ show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster. Linked by secure video, Bush's confidence on Aug. 28 starkly contrasts with the dire warnings his disaster chief and a cacophony of federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm. http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLTF http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLTF/commentary#comments Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:23:53 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLTF RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 1 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLTF/ National Journal ranks all Senators on a conservative/liberal scale. 100 = Liberal, 0 = Neanderthal. Salazar: Points: 60.2 Rank: 41 Allard: Points: 9.2 Rank: LAST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLks http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLks/commentary#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:39:56 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLks RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 1 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLks/ Soon, she'll just disappear, Jeralyn suggests ; The she-pundit with long blond hair gave another inflammatory speech last night, this time at Indiana University. As usual, it was filled with insults, such as calling one student "gay boy" and referring to Iraqis as "brown boys." One comment that drew strong audience reactions came from a young man who asked her if she didn't like Democrats, wouldn't it just be better to have a dictatorship? Coulter responded with a jab at the way the student talked. "You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?" she said. Some more Coulterisms: She claimed liberals "hate God and hate America," ....She said that Democrats don't want democracy to succeed in Iraq. She said, "They don't think the little brown boys could handle democracy," to which students responded, "We don't tolerate racism here. Go back to Germany." http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLkP http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLkP/commentary#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:14:06 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLkP RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 2 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLkP/ ...the two biggest achievments of this administration are destroying Iraq and New Orleans... ... so far... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLDZ http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLDZ/commentary#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:08:48 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLDZ RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLDZ/ Stunning. Just stunning. ...congressional investigations of government responses to Hurricane Katrina have revealed that two of the nation's key crisis managers, the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, do not use e-mail. ...Dr. Irwin Redlener, a disaster-preparedness expert at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, expressed surprise that two officials in such critical positions would not be adept at routine methods of modern communication. "This can't be true," he said, only half-jokingly. "It's almost inconceivable in 2006 for officials at that level of government not to be directly connected to systems of communications." http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLDq http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLDq/commentary#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:57:04 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLDq RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 1 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLDq/ Seriously, just this week , speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting; When asked to describe the most difficult moral decision she'd made during her career, Coutler responded "There was one time when I had a shot at Clinton." And this dangerous whackjob is still invited to Sunday talk shows ... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLzn http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLzn/commentary#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:15:23 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CLzn RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 6 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLzn/ Amazing, really. Depressing. But, amazing; news that White House new directly exactly as the levees failed; Representative Thomas M. Davis, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the special House committee investigating the hurricane response, said the only level of government that performed well was the National Weather Service, which correctly predicted the force of the storm. But no one heeded the message, he said. "The president is still at his ranch, the vice president is still fly-fishing in Wyoming, the president's chief of staff is in Maine," Mr. Davis said. "In retrospect, don't you think it would have been better to pull together? They should have had better leadership. It is disengagement." Disengagement. Lying. Law-breaking. Torture. Spying on Americans. Nothing impeachable here... http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CL89 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CL89/commentary#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:09:57 EST http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/rampantprogress/CL89 RampantProgressive RampantProgressive 0 http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/comment_rss/CL89/